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| | PRO-level points: 62, Questions answered: 35, Questions asked: 2 | Sample translations submitted: 5 | English to Chinese: A Prayer | Source text - English
A Prayer
Dear Lord,
Help me to live this day
Quietly, easily.
To lean upon Thy great strength
Trustfully, restfully.
To wait for the unfolding of Thy will
Patiently, serenely.
To meet others
Peacefully, joyfully.
To face tomorrow
Confidently, courageously.
--Carla Holtermann | Translation - Chinese
禱詞
■Carla Holtermann／翻譯：石依華
親愛的上帝
請幫助我－－
度過這一天，
悄然靜默，輕省順利；
倚靠祢的大能，
信賴不疑，安然歇息；
等待祢旨意展現，
堅持忍耐，沉著寧靜；
與人交往相處，
平和無爭，歡快欣喜；
面對每一天，
自信坦然，勇敢無懼。
| | English to Chinese: Toddler Nursing | Source text - English
Breastfeed a Toddler - Why on Earth?
Because more and more women are now breastfeeding their babies, more and more are also finding that they enjoy breastfeeding enough to want to continue longer than the usual few months they initially thought they would. UNICEF has long encouraged breastfeeding for two years and longer, and the American Academy of Pediatrics is now on record as encouraging mothers to nurse at least one year and as long after as both mother and baby desire. Even the Canadian Paediatric Society, in its latest feeding statement acknowledges that women may want to breastfeed for two years or longer. Breastfeeding to 3 and 4 years of age has been common in much of the world until recently, and it is still common in many societies for toddlers to breastfeed.
Why should breastfeeding continue past six months?
Because mothers and babies often enjoy breastfeeding a lot. Why stop an enjoyable relationship?
But it is said that breastmilk has no value after six months.
Perhaps this is said, but it is wrong. That anyone can say such a thing only shows how ignorant so many people in our society are about breastfeeding. Breastmilk is, after all, milk. Even after six months, it still contains protein, fat, and other nutritionally important and appropriate elements which babies and children need. Breastmilk still contains immunologic factors that help protect the baby. In fact, some immune factors in breastmilk that protect the baby against infection are present in greater amounts in the second year of life than in the first. This is, of course as it should be, since children older than a year are generally exposed to more infection. Breastmilk still contains factors that help the immune system to mature, and which help the brain, gut, and other organs to develop and mature.
It has been well shown that children in daycare who are still breastfeeding have far fewer and less severe infections than the children who are not breastfeeding. The mother thus loses less work time if she continues nursing her baby once she is back at her paid work.
It is interesting that formula company marketing pushes the use of formula (a rather imperfect copy of the real thing) for a year, yet implies that breastmilk (from which the imperfect copy is copied) is only worthwhile for 6 months or even less ("the best nutrition for newborns"). Too many health professionals have taken up the refrain.
I have heard that the immunologic factors in breastmilk prevent the baby from developing his own immunity if I breastfeed past six months.
This is untrue; in fact, this is absurd. It is unbelievable how so many people in our society twist around the advantages of breastfeeding and turn them into disadvantages. We give babies immunizations so that they are able to defend themselves against the real infection. Breastmilk also allows the baby to be fight off infections. When the baby fights off these infections, he becomes immune. Naturally.
But I want my baby to become independent.
And breastfeeding makes the toddler dependent? Don’t believe it. The child who breastfeeds until he weans himself (usually from 2 to 4 years), is generally more independent, and, perhaps more importantly, more secure in his independence. He has received comfort and security from the breast, until he is ready to make the step himself to stop. And when he makes that step himself, he knows he has achieved something, he knows he has moved ahead. It is a milestone in his life.
Often we push children to become "independent" too quickly. To sleep alone too soon, to wean from the breast too soon, to do without their parents too soon, to do everything too soon. Don’t push and the child will become independent soon enough. What’s the rush? Soon they will be leaving home. You want them to leave home at 14?
Of course, breastfeeding can, in some situations, be used to foster an overdependent relationship. But so can food and toilet training. The problem is not the breastfeeding. This is another issue.
What else?
Possibly the most important aspect of nursing a toddler is not the nutritional or immunologic benefits, important as they are. I believe the most important aspect of nursing a toddler is the special relationship between child and mother. Breastfeeding is a life affirming act of love. This continues when the baby becomes a toddler. Anyone without prejudices, who has ever observed an older baby or toddler nursing can testify that there is something almost magical, something special, something far beyond food going on. A toddler will sometimes spontaneously, for no obvious reason, break into laughter while he is nursing. His delight in the breast goes far beyond a source of food. And if the mother allows herself, breastfeeding becomes a source of delight for her as well, far beyond the pleasure of providing food. Of course, it’s not always great, but what is? But when it is, it makes it all so worthwhile.
And if the child does become ill or does get hurt (and they do as they meet other children and become more daring), what easier way to comfort the child than breastfeeding? I remember nights in the emergency department when mothers would walk their ill, non nursing babies or toddlers up and down the halls trying, often unsuccessfully, to console them, while the nursing mothers were sitting quietly with their comforted, if not necessarily happy, babies at the breast. The mother comforts the sick child with breastfeeding, and the child comforts the mother by breastfeeding.
Handout #21. Toddler nursing. Revised January 2000
Written by Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
http://www. BreastfeedingOnline.com | Translation - Chinese
養幼兒也餵母奶，到底好在哪裡？
現在有越來越多的母親選擇餵母奶，其中也有越來越多的人發現餵母奶這件事出乎原先料想的好，因而她們願意比一般餵母奶只餵幾個月還要餵得更久。聯合國兒童基金會（UNICEF）長久以來一直鼓勵母親要餵新生兒吃母奶兩年或更長的時間，美國小兒科醫學會（American Academy of Pediatrics）目前也在其正式的政策宣導文件中載明，小兒科醫生應鼓勵母親們哺乳至少一年，其後則視母子雙方的意願，盡可能能餵多久就餵多久。連加拿大小兒醫學社（Canadian Paediatric Society）最新的幼兒哺餵狀況報告中也指出，女性願意哺餵母乳兩年或更長的時間。餵母奶持續三年到四年，直到現在在全球的許多地區仍是一件平常的事；餵幼兒吃母奶對許多不同文化社會來說，也事屬平常。
◎為什麼要餵母奶超過六個月？
很簡單，因為媽媽和寶寶們通常都非常享受餵母奶這件事，所以幹麼要終止這麼令他們雙方感到愉快的一種關係呢？
◎但是很多人說，超過六個月以後還餵母奶，對嬰兒來說沒有營養價值。
也許有人這麼說，但這是一種錯誤的說法。許多人把這項錯誤觀念琅琅上口，正好顯示出我們社會中有太多的人對於母奶太過於無知。母奶本質上就是一種＜奶＞，即使小孩已經超過六個月，即使母親已經開始泌乳超過六個月，母奶之中當然還是含有蛋白?|、脂肪、以及其他在營養上重要且適當的成份，是人類的寶寶及幼兒所需要的。母奶也會持續含有免疫因子，可以幫助小孩提高抵抗力。事實上，母奶中所含的某些能夠保護小孩免於感染的免疫因子，它們的含量在哺乳第二年所分泌的的乳汁中比第一年還要多。這個事實其實反應出幼兒生命過程中自然的需要，因為超過一歲的幼兒比一歲以前的幼兒，活動範圍大得多，也曝露在更多的感染源之中。母乳仍然含有必須的成份，能夠持續幫助一歲以上幼兒的免疫系統逐漸發展成熟；這些成份也有助於大腦，消化道及其他器官的發展及成熟。
同時，資料指出，白天扥給別人帶的小孩，如果仍餵食母奶，他們遭到嚴重疾病感染的比例遠低於那些扥他人帶但是沒有餵食母奶的小孩。對於職業婦女來說，餵母奶等於小孩抵抗力強、身體健康；小孩健康，她就不必花太多時間請假照顧生病的孩子。因此持續餵母奶，反而是比較不干擾母親回到職場工作的一種養育選擇。
可笑的是，配方奶公司的行銷廣告一直鼓吹大家至少要餵嬰兒吃一年的配方奶（這是一種不太完美的母乳仿造品），卻暗示母乳（配方奶努力仿造的對象）只需要餵半年或更短的時間就可以了；仔細一想，你就會知道這是多麼荒唐的邏輯。配方奶廣告總是說「母奶是新生兒的最佳營養來源」卻故意不提母奶也是人類幼兒的最佳食品。惡劣的是，太多所謂的營養專家，竟然也接受這種說法。
◎但我聽說，如果餵母奶超過六個月的話，母奶中的免疫因子，會妨礙嬰兒們自行發展出他們自己的免疫力及抵抗力。
這種說法是錯誤的；事實上，它根本是一種荒謬的說法。真?y以想像我們社會中竟有這麼多人對母奶的觀念已經扭曲到了這種地步，竟把母奶的好處抹黑成一種＜缺點＞。我們替寶寶們注射預防針，等於讓她們經歷一場小型感染，自行產生出抗體來，以便日後自行抵抗外界真實的感染源。母奶也是一樣啊，
吃母奶的寶寶當然也是自己去抵抗疾病，而不是「母奶」在幫他們做這件事；當他們成功地戰勝了感染源以後，他們就擁有了免疫力。
◎可是我希望我的寶寶能夠早日獨立。
你的意思是說，母奶會讓寶寶變得很依賴嗎？呵呵，不要相信這種說法。吃母奶、並且自然離乳的孩子們（大部分的孩子會在兩歲到四歲之間自然離乳），通常都是比較獨立的，而且更重要的是，他們不是被迫獨立卻心中充滿壓抑與恐懼，而是有能力安然自信地成為一個獨立的人。因為他們從媽媽的乳房獲得了撫慰，經歷了更多的親密接觸，從而建立起安全感，一直到他自然而然地發展出足夠的心理成熟度，自己決定離乳。當他們準備好可以離乳的時候，他們會清楚知道自己已經「完成」了一個成長階段，可以往下一個階段邁進了。離乳是他們人生的一個重要里程碑。
人們經常太早就開始強迫小孩子獨立，例如太早要求他們自己睡；太早把他們從媽媽的乳房上扒開，逼迫他們斷奶；太早就希望他們能不靠父母，自己去做很多事；總之我們太早就希望小孩什麼事都能靠他自己。事實上我們不用逼，小孩子很快就會變成一個獨立的個人的，甚至會快到你遺憾他為什麼這麼快就要離開你。急什麼呢？難道你希望你的小孩十四歲就離家獨立嗎？
當然啦，餵母奶加強了小孩過度依賴的個別情況也不是沒有，但是食物控制及如廁訓練也會造成同樣的問題，「過度依賴」的罪魁禍首絕不是餵母奶。過度依賴的先天氣質是另一個教養問題。
◎還有什麼重點嗎？
給幼兒持續哺餵母奶，最重要的理由其實還不在於更好的營養成份、及加強幼兒抵抗力的這個部份而已，我認為持續哺乳的好處是在於，母親和小孩之間因為持續哺乳而形成的特殊的親密關係。餵母奶是一種用溫暖的身體來傳達愛意的行動，在哺乳的過程中，母親與孩子雙方以活生生的生命相繫感，建立了彼此之間愛的連結。這個過程在嬰兒長成幼兒的過程中是持續不斷的，任何人如果曾經不帶偏見地觀察過一個正在吃母奶的較大嬰兒或幼兒的話，就不能不承認，在哺乳的親子檔身上的確存在著某種「神奇的光」，他們看起來就很特別，絕不只是在「餵食」而已。正在吃母奶的孩子常常會沒什麼特別理由，就不自覺地笑了起來，而這種愉悅的感受，絕不只是來自於獲得了食物的滿足而已。餵母奶的媽媽們如果夠放鬆、讓自己好好享受哺乳過程的話，她自己也能夠從哺乳這件事獲得很大的愉悅，絕不只是「為家人提供食物」的那種滿足及成就感而已。當然，餵母奶並不是永遠這麼愉快，畢竟世界上哪有一件事是永遠愉快的？但是，當你真正享受到餵母奶的極大愉悅時，你就會知道這是一件多麼有價值的事，所有其中曾經的辛苦或麻煩都是值得的。
還有別忘了，假如小孩子不幸生病或受傷的時候（小孩子慢慢成長，膽子也越來越大，一定會開始與其他小孩和更多事物有所接觸，多方探索新世界使他們難免生病受傷），給他們溫暖的乳房將是比任何東西都更好更有效的撫慰，能夠讓他們快速鎮定下來。我記得無數個在急診室值班的夜晚，看著沒有餵母奶或已經斷奶的母親們?е齻兩〉暮⒆樱煌Ｗ邅碜呷ィ囍矒崴麄儯瑓s經常怎麼哄都沒有效果；相反的，哺乳的媽媽們卻只需要坐在那裏，靜靜地把孩子抱在胸前，正在受病痛之苦的孩子就可以安靜下來，完全不必母子兩人辛辛苦苦又拍又哄還不得寬慰。這就是餵母奶的神奇之處：媽媽用她的乳房及奶，給了孩子安慰；孩子則以他對母親及乳房的信靠，給了母親安慰。
| | English to Chinese: 【Staking Claims】Saying Yes to NO | Source text - English
¡¾Staking Claims¡¿
Saying Yes to NO
The patent office is issuing a wealth of patents related to one of the most celebrated molecules of the past decade By GARY STIX
JONATHAN STAMLER of Duke University has applied for more than 50 NO-associated patents.
When three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for discoveries about nitric oxide, news coverage often focused on how this insight helped lead to the creation of Viagra. But the ubiquitous role that nitric oxide (NO) plays in the body¡ªit does everything from fighting infections to combating cancer¡ªhas spurred a gold rush of patenting. One prominent researcher, Jonathan Stamler of Duke University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has received more than 10 patents in the past 18 months alone for his work on NO; he estimates that he has applied for more than 50 in all.
A key recent patent relates to basic research performed by Stamler and his colleagues. The work showed that hemoglobin, besides shuttling oxygen to tissues and retrieving carbon dioxide, also delivers NO. Before, scientists had always believed that hemoglobin destroyed NO.
The new research demonstrated that the NO linked to hemoglobin allows blood vessels to expand or contract, depending on how much of the molecule is present. Patents received by Stamler and his colleague Joseph Bonaventura (U.S.: 6,153,186 and 6,203,789) provide a method for restoring NO in red blood cells that have been depleted through disease or while being stored in blood banks. The NO binds to cysteine, an amino acid in hemoglobin, to form a molecule called an S-nitrosothiol. When the red blood cells arrive at the capillaries, they release oxygen as well as the S-nitrosothiols. The NO in the nitrosothiols dilates blood vessels and thus allows oxygen to better reach tissues. NO-loaded blood cells could boost the effectiveness of blood transfusions done to treat sickle cell anemia and to replenish blood after
heart attacks, strokes and other conditions in which tissues suffer from oxygen deficiency.
Another major finding achieved by Stamler¡¯s group was that NO binds to transcription factors and enzymes that regulate proteins in invading pathogens and in cancer and other abnormal cells. Stamler and Owen W. Griffith of the Medical College of Wisconsin won patents (U.S.: 6,057,367 and 6,180,824) for fighting microbes and cells gone awry by manipulating NO-related biochemical pathways. When the body is under attack from microorganisms, for instance, mammalian immune cells called macrophages produce NO, which attacks critical metabolic enzymes and other proteins in the pathogens. In a routine counterattack by the microbes, a sulfur-containing molecule, a thiol, wipes up the NO, a first line of defense against the invasion.
One aspect of the patents covers chemicals, such as a sulfoximine (which is related to a cancer chemotherapeutic agent), that inhibit enzymes and transcription factors that synthesize thiols in microorganisms but leave proteins in human cells relatively untouched. In addition, NO can be attached to an anticancer chemotherapeutic agent that homes in on a rapidly dividing cell, thereby enhancing its effects.
Stamler and Griffith¡¯s patent coverage is very extensive. Besides new drugs, one of the patents also covers molecules targeted by pharmaceuticals: any protein that microorganisms and other pathologically proliferating cells, such as those in cancer or in reblockage of an artery (restenosis), use to protect themselves against an NO onslaught. ¡°This is a broad-based system, disruption of which may have major implications in biology and disease,¡± Stamler notes.
Please let us know about interesting and unusual patents. Send suggestions to: patents@sciam.com
NOVEMBER 2001
Copyright 2001 Scientific American, Inc.
| Translation - Chinese
【專利大觀】
歡迎氧化氮
專利局正在核定好幾筆與前十年間最紅的一些化學分子相關的專利權
撰文／斯蒂克斯
圖說：杜克大學的強納森‧斯坦勒，提出超過五十件與氧化氮相關的專利權申請。
1998年三位美國人因為他們在氮氧化物方面的發現而贏得諾貝爾生理及醫學獎，新聞報導對此多著墨於這些發現對於威而剛的發明居功厥偉。不過氮氧化物（NO）在人體內無所不在，它所扮演的角色從抵抗感染到對抗癌症，不一而足，因而掀起了一陣申請氮氧化物相關專利權的淘金風暴。其中一位傑出的研究者，任職於杜克大學及霍華休斯醫學研究院的強納森‧斯坦勒，靠著他在氮氧化物上面的研究成果，在過去十八個月中，已經取得了超過十項的專利權。他估計在氮氧化物專利權方面，他總共已提出超過五十件申請案。
斯坦勒最近取得的一件主要的專利權，與他及他同事所進行的基礎研究相關。這項研究顯示，血紅素除了能攜帶氧氣供身體組織使用、並從身體組織帶走二氧化碳外，還能傳遞氮氧化物。以往科學家還以為血紅素的功能之一包括摧毀氮氧化物呢！
新的研究描繪出氮氧化物的功能藍圖：與血紅素結合後的氮氧化物，使夠使血管依據血紅素中氮氧化物分子的多寡，進行舒放或收縮。斯坦勒與他的同事約瑟夫‧邦納凡都拉共同獲得的專利權（美國專利權編號：6,153,186 及 6,203,789），提供了一個方法，在血中氮氧化物因疾病而耗竭、或血液抽離人體儲存在血庫中時，能夠恢復紅血球中氮氧化物的含量。當氮氧化物與半胱胺酸（cysteine，血紅素中所含的一種氨基酸）結合時，它們形成一個叫做 S-亞硝基硫醇（S-nitrosothiol）的分子。當紅血球到達毛細血管時，會釋放出氧氣及 S-亞硝基硫醇，此時 S-亞硝基硫醇中的氮氧化物會使血管膨脹，讓血液中的氧能更好地傳遞給體組織。載有氮氧化物的血球能夠提昇對鐮刀狀紅血球性貧血（sickle cell anemia）患者輸血的治療效益，並能夠改善心臟病及中風或其他身體缺氧狀況發作後，身體組織缺氧的情況。
另一個斯坦勒及他的研究團隊的主要研究成果，是氮氧化物能夠與轉錄因子（transcription fators）及酵素結合，共同調節入侵的病原體、或癌細胞、或其他不正常細胞中的蛋白質生成。斯坦勒及威斯康辛醫學院的歐文‧W‧格里非斯共同獲得的幾項專利權（美國專利權編號：6,057,367 及 6,180,824），是關於如何操縱與氮氧化物相關的化學反應路徑，以抵抗入侵身體的微生物（microbes）及體內的異常細胞。舉例來說，當身體受到微生物攻擊時，哺乳類動物的一種叫做巨噬細胞的免疫細胞，就會開始製造氮氧化物，用它來攻擊病原體內關鍵的新陳代謝酵素以及其他的一些蛋白質。當病原體對此展開例行的反擊行動時，一個含有硫的化學分子─硫醇（thiol），會把病原體細胞內的氮氧化物一掃而空；這是身體面對微生物入侵時的第一線防禦措施。
氮氧化物專利權的另一個面向，是化學藥品專利。例如磺醯亞胺（ sulfoximine）─這是與一種癌症化療作用劑相關的化合物，它可以抑制微生物細胞內酵素及轉錄因子合成硫醇，但相對來說，又能夠使人體細胞內本身合成的蛋白質不受干擾。此外，氮氧化物還能與一種抗癌的化療作用劑結合，然後自動追蹤那些快速分裂增生的細胞，因而加強化療劑的功效。
斯坦勒與格里非斯所取得的專利權，涵蓋面相當廣泛，除了新藥以外，還有一項專利與藥理學上受到矚目的一類化學分子有關：也就是在微生物細胞，或是其他病理學上所定義的增生細胞─例如癌細胞、或動脈重新阻塞（即動脈再狹窄，restenosis）時的增生細胞內，任何用來保護己身不受氮氧化物突襲的蛋白質。斯坦勒指出：「生物體內的氮氧化物是一個複雜的系統，如果這個系統崩潰的話，在生物學上或疾病方面將造成相當值得玩味的後果。」
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| | Chinese to English: 座談會聽譯 | Source text - Chinese
H: 在開始前首先介紹一下本公司到底在做什麼，這次座談會的內容與目的又是什麼。我們公司是做市場調查的，各式各樣案子都執行，例如走在路上有人請你們做一下問卷、口味調查、試吃試喝等等，你們會接受調查嗎?
PM4: 不會，因為趕時間
P: 有過經驗：我騎摩托車，正好在路邊，被攔下來做簡單的問卷
H: 這是一種訪問方式，街頭訪問方式。另外一種方式相信各位也非常熟悉，則是坐在家中正在看電視時，有人打電話來做收視率調查。你們接到過嗎？
P: 沒接受過，因為不在家／通常不太願意接受電話的市調訪問，會直接掛掉。
H: 今天這種訪問方式比較特殊，是小組討論會，通常會先指定特定主題。在場各位應該知道我們是從南山取得各位的名單，所以今天我們談論的內容是跟南山有關係的，與理財相關，不是消費性產品如洗髮精、沐浴乳的使用經驗談。今天為何在場有八位朋友參與，你們知道原因嗎？
P: 因為要有各行各業人士？
H: 沒錯，我們基本上希望有各行各業參加，發表不同的意見。我們想對一些題目進行了解，除了會給各位看一些產品說明資料，也會問各位許多問題。座談會時間以兩小時為準，這是需要各位有問有答才行，如果我問、你們不答，時間到了我也不會讓你們走的。有問有答速度才會快，也許可以創紀錄很快結束座談。待會兒你們如果聽不懂我的問題，可以發問，不要大眼瞪小眼；但遊戲規則請大家配合：每一位都要發言。其次，在座八位不必每一次都按座位編號發言，沒有一定的順序；而且大家各有自己的意見，發言沒有對與錯，請務必每位都發表意見。開始前我們就先來個簡單的自我介紹，請不要拘束，想喝茶吃零食、站起來動一動都可以，但手機請改為振動，不要有鬧鈴。洗手間在外面，上完了不能不回來喔。所以有心機的主持人車馬費都是最後發，不會先發，但一定會給你們的。
我先自我介紹。我姓謝，今年近三十歲了，目前單身。大學畢業以來的工作都是市場調查，工作都沒變過，所以在敝公司已經待了蠻久的。工作內容很有趣，需要經常與人接觸，不過還蠻輕鬆的，假日可以睡到自然醒。請各位告訴我你們的工作、平常休閒活動、已婚或未婚等等簡單的自我介紹。
PM1: 我姓葉，從事資訊業，公司在中山北路二段，中飛電腦，我是系統程式師，未婚。休閒活動就是睡覺。
HF1: 我姓蔡，在電信公司上班，已婚，孩子還小，上班外就是在家管小孩帶小孩。
PF2: 我從事室內設計，不過目前待業在家，因為工作實在太累，暫時休息一陣。平常休閒活動，若只有一兩天假期就待在家裏，若是一段長時間，就會出去玩，傾向於出國旅遊。也是單身。
PM2: 我姓葛，未婚，工作是檢驗、驗證方面，進出口產品的檢驗，常常需要到處跑。首次參加這一類的調查活動。
PM3: 我姓周，目前快四十歲，已婚，從事安全方面的工作，如門鎖、攝影監工器材、保全等等。以前觀念中做門鎖的叫做鎖匠，現在時代變了，這些是安全方面的業務。我目前與朋友合作所謂的＜警民連線＞，這是這幾年才開放給民眾使用的。我有三個小孩，最大的現在小二。
PF3: 我姓許，目前從事會計方面工作，平常休閒活動就是看書、聽音樂、逛街。單身。
PF4: 我姓黃，現在在國中教書，休閒活動也是在家睡覺，因為工作緣故、只有禮拜天可以放假。我教音樂，因為學校有樂團，樂團都是禮拜六上課，所以只能在週日休息。所以都是利用暑假出去玩，每年大約都去三個禮拜吧。
PM4: 我姓李，從事電子業，主要是賣 IT 的產品，工作上很少跑來跑去，不過負責的是國外客戶。工作不算太忙。已婚，還沒有小孩。
H: 助理小姐把各位的車馬費信封都拿過來了，可以證明我不是騙人的了吧！剛剛各位提到平常閒暇時間會睡覺補眠啦、看書聽音樂啦、出去旅行啦，但是有沒有什麼是你們一直希望要做的，卻一直還沒有達成的？有沒有什麼夢想？或者生命當中什麼事情對你們來說是比較重要的？
PF4: 把家裏整理乾淨一點。因為很久才有時間整理一次，覺得很痛苦。
Ｈ: 還有呢？
PM1: 環遊世界。
PF1: 去遊學
PM2: 因為經常南北跑，希望能看看開車可以開多快。
H: 所以你想飆車？
PM2: 對。
PM3: 我認為什麼都不重要，只要不要給我壓力就可以了。
PM4: 希望能盡早退休，才能有更多時間做自己想做的事。
H: 我們剛剛很快地了解了一下大家的背景，及生活當中的嗜好。接下來要談的是我們今天座談會的主軸，並進行討論。待會兒基本上會給大家看兩樣商品，它不是以實體的東西呈現出來，而是以文字敘述的方式寫出來。我希望討論的是，針對這樣的產品說明，身為消費者，你們看到這些商品敘述文字後，對它們的反應會是什麼。在座各位都是南山的保戶，基本上這項商品是為保戶而設計的，一個獨享的俱樂部服務、一個會員服務方案，加入這個俱樂部或會員服務方案，可以享受什麼好康呢？第一，它可以獲得一張免費的白金卡；除此之外還有其他一些會員專屬的好康。但是這個俱樂部是必須要付費的。所以付費需付多少也是待會要討論的，比如說，如果今天你們在市場上看到這樣的商品，你們覺得多少錢是比較合理的。當然不是要你們現在就掏錢出來，我們只是希望知道你們看到市場上這樣的商品時，你們的反應是什麼。其實南山為保戶設計的商品有好多種，因為時間的關係，我今天只會針對兩樣商品來討論。我們先一項一項來談。記住，加入這樣的俱樂部、會員方案，第一個好康的就是可以拿到一張白金卡；白金卡的作用，待會裏面會說。然後，這一俱樂部方案是要付費的，付多少？我們待會兒來討論。其他還有什麼好康的呢？我們也一個一個來看。
（取出產品說明海報）
它叫什麼俱樂部呢？＜健康達人俱樂部＞。凡加入健康達人俱樂部的會員，就可以享有市價兩萬元的健康養生商品及相關服務。你加入俱樂部後可以享有一些基本權益，也就是好康的，首先，有所謂的＜免費健康人生＞三選一，第一是年度健康檢查和六堂瑜珈，或太極、或氣功的課程免費贈送；第二是一次的揚昇高爾夫球場十八洞揮杆、或是高爾夫練習球場的練習券一張、以及百齡電動牙刷一支；第三是亞歷山大三個月會員免費使用。目前健康人生只有這三個選項，但真正在市場上操作的時候，它可能還有好幾個方案可以讓你去挑選。其次，是三次的SPA免費體驗課程，還有健康雜誌三期免費贈閱，還有每一季的健康養生講座免費參加，同時購買團體意外保險可以享有七折的優惠。只要加入健康達人俱樂部，就可以免費享有以上這些基本權益。
接下來介紹免費贈送的這張白金卡的功用、及它與這個俱樂部的關係。年年有消費、年年都加值；如果持卡第一年整年累積消費達到20萬（不含保費），或是以這張卡累積國內一般預借現金金額達20萬，或累積AIG消費分期付款金額達20萬，就可以享有剛剛＜基本權益三選一＞的加值版。怎麼加值法呢？就是年度健康檢查和六堂瑜珈的這項基本權益，你若達到這個門檻之後，它就把你變大，再加上豪華兩天一夜養身SPA全身健檢。第二個就是揚昇高爾夫球場十八洞揮桿或高爾夫練習球場的練習券一張、以及百齡電動牙刷一支，再加上健康大師雙槽腹部按摩機。第三方案本來是亞歷山大三個月會員免費使用，達到門檻後就變成亞歷山大一年的會員。
好的，現在請每個人拿一張，讓你們可以再看一遍。然後每一個人拿一張紙，多的放中間。我忘了告訴你們我們要錄音，因為會後要寫報告的，放心，我們不會透露各位的秘密。請各位再看一下這項方案。至於該怎麼寫呢？先請每個人拿一支筆。你們看到的這張表格裏面，有一個＜預期價格＞，剛剛我們說了，這是一個付費的俱樂部，看了這樣的商品說明以後，請你告訴我，付多少錢是你可以接受的。請把可接受的價格，寫在預期價格那一欄裏面。請告訴我你覺得一整年的費用，合理的價格是多少。
| Translation - English
H: Before we start, let me first introduce to you about our company, and the topic and purpose of this symposium. We are a professional market research company that executes all kinds of market researches. For example, you might have such experiences of being asked to fill out some questionnaires, or to taste some foods or drinks while you are walking on the street. Will you accept these kinds of survey requests?
PM4: No, because I am always in a hurry.
Ps: Yes, I did have such experience. I was just about to ride my motorcycle when stopped by a inquirer and being asked to fill out a simple questionnaire.
H: Yes, this is a form of survey we called street survey. There is another way of proceeding a survey which I believe you all are familiar with. When you are watching TV at home, you might get called for the purpose of Audience Measurement Service. Did you ever get such phone calls?
Ps: No. Because I am always not at home. / Because I am usually not willing to answer those phone calls asking me to participate in a survey, I hang them up.
H: Well, today we are proceeding a survey in a more specific form, the symposium. Usually we set up specific themes for such group discussion. You already knew that we get your names from Nanshan. Hence you know that the topic today would be related to Nanshan and financial management, instead of experiences in using consumer products such as shampoos and shower gels. Do you know why there is eight of you here today?
Ps: Because you need samples from different occupations?
H: That is correct. We hope that we can collect different opinions from different occupations. We want to know more about some issues. Later I will show you some product outline and ask you quite a few questions. The symposium is going to take 2 hours but it depends on how you respond to my questions. If you do not offer opinions, I will not let you go when time is up. I ask, you answer, then the show will run smoothly. Maybe you can set up a time record of doing this kind of symposium. Later on if you can not get what I said or you have any questions, please ask, do not just keep it with you. But rule number 1 is, everybody speaks. Do not be silent. Rule number 2, you do not have to speak in same order each turn. Every one has his own opinion, there is no right and wrong. So please just say what you have in mind. Now let us all introduce ourselves briefly. Please feel free to drink or eat during the session, or even stand up for a stretch. But be sure to set your mobile phone to vibrating mode cos we do not want to be disturbed. Rest room is just out there. Be sure to return after you are done. That is why a deliberate moderator always keeps the recompense till the end of the discussion. We do not give it to you beforehand, but we surely will give it to you. Let me introduce myself first. I am Hsieh at my late twenties, single. I have been working for this market survey company for quite a few years since my graduation from college. My job is very interesting which needs to contact with a lot of people. It is not a heavy duty job, on holidays I can sleep whatever long I like. Now please tell me about yourselves. Your job, your leisure activity, your marital status, etc.
PM1: I am Yeh. I am in the Information Technology business. I worked for Dimerco Data System Corporation£¨ÖзÆëŠÄX£© located on Section 2 ChungShang North Road. I am a system programmer, single. I devote my leisure time to sleep.
HF1: I am Fan (or Chen), working in a Telecom company. Married and one little child. Off duty time I serve as a mother solely.
PF2: I was in interior design business but now I am waiting for a job because it is too consuming an occupation and I need some rest. As for the leisure, if only a day or two break, I prefer staying at home. If it is a longer period of time, I will go travel. I tend to travel abroad. Single too.
PM2: I am Ge, single, working in testing and certificating area, mainly for import and export products inspection. Need to travel a lot due to my job function. This is the first time I participate in such a survey activity.
PM3: I am Zhou in my late thirties. Married. I am a safety professional deal with locks, Video surveillances, security services, etc. In the past people used to call the one who set up locks a locksmith. As time changes, now we called this a safety profession. Now I am cooperating with my friends in so-called ¡°policy-and-the-public-connect¡±. It is a service opened up for general public only these latest years. I have 3 children and the oldest one is 8 now.
PF3: I am Hsu. My profession is in accounting. I spend my leisure time mostly on reading, listening to music, and shopping. Single.
PF4: I am Huang. Iam a teacher in junior high school. I have to work six days a week so on Sunday the only off day my leisure activity is sleep at home. I teach music and have to conduct the school orchestra training on Saturdays. That is why I only have Sunday off. So I can only use summer vacations for abroad traveling. I spend about 3 weeks for traveling every year.
PM4: I am Lee. I work in electronics business mainly about selling IT products. I do not have to travel a lot for work but basically I deal with foreign customers. It is not too busy a job. I am married, without child.
H: The assistant has just brought us the envelopes with your recompense in them. Now you can believe that I was not fooling you about it. You all were talked about your leisure activities like sleep, reading, traveling, etc. But is there anything that you always want to do but still not accomplished yet? Do you have any dreams? And what is really important in your life?
PF4: I hope to tidy up my place. Because I seldom have time to clean it up. The mess make me feel bad.
£È: And?
PM1: Travel around the world.
PF1: Go travel-and-study.
PM2: I need to travel around Taiwan a lot. I hope to see how fast I can drive.
H: So you want to race wildly?
PM2: Yes.
PM3: I do not think anything is important to my life. Just take all the pressure away from me and that would be fine.
PM4: I hope to retire as early as possible so I can have time to do whatever I want.
H: We just took a brief look at everybody¡®s background and your hobbies. Now let us focus on the main theme today and begin our discussion. I will show you 2 products in the next minutes. It is not in a substantial form but in a descriptive way. What I hope to discuss is, as a consumer, what you would think about such product descriptions, and what your responses would be to them. All you here are Nanshan Policyholders. The products are designed exclusively for the policyholders, it is an exclusive club service or member service concept. What benefits would you get by joining the club or member service programs? First, you will be provided a free platinum card. Besides, there is some other member-only benefits. But you have to pay to join the clubs. So we have to discuss how much you would be willing to pay to join. Say, if you see a product of this kind on the market, what price you think is reasonable for it. Of course I am not urge you to pay for it now. I just want to know your responses when you find such products. Actually Nanshan has developed quite a few products exclusively for the policyholders but we only have limited time to discuss 2 of them today. Let us go through one at a time. Remember, to join the clubs or membership program, the first benefit would be a free platinum card. The usage of the platinum card will be covered later. Secondly, this club program requires you to pay. But how much? We will be discussing this. What are other benefits? Now we are going to take a look.
(Read out the club concept description)
The club name is ¡°Health Expert Club¡±. Every member of the club enjoys benefits of health products and services total of NT$ 20,000 value. There are some basic benefits when you joining the club. First of all, it has a free ¡°Health Life¡± choose-one-out-of-three-options program. The first option is a free annual health check plus 6 free Yoga or Tai-chi or Chi Gung classes. The second is one free 18 holes golf swing at YangShen Golf Field or a practice coupon of Golf Practicing Field, plus a Braun electric tooth brush. The third is 3 months free membership of Alexander Health Club. Now we offer 3 options for the Health Life program. But when the product is ready to promote on the market, we will give you another options to choose from. And there are still benefits of a free 3-time SPA experiential coupon, 3 free issues of health magazine, quarterly free ticket for health related lecture, and 30% discount for group accidental insurance. If you join the ¡°Health Expert Club¡±, these basic benefits described above are yours all for free.
Next I would like to introduce the free platinum card, and it¡®s relationship to the club. You use the card actively every year, you get some add-on preferential health services every year. If your transaction amount (not including insurance premiums) of first year exceeding NT$ 200,000, or first year total domestic cash advance exceeding NT$ 200,000, or accumulated total of AIG installment payment exceeding NT$ 200,000, you will get a value-added version of the basic benefits just mentioned. That is, if you pass the threshold, the free annual health check plus 6 free Yoga classes will be added a luxury 2-day SPA activities. The option of one free 18 holes golf swing at YangShen Golf Field or a practice coupon of Golf Practicing Field, plus a Braun electric tooth brush, will be added a Health Master 2-trough foot massage device. The third option of 3 months free membership of Alexander Health Club will be extended to a full year membership after you pass the threshold.
Ok. Now each of you please take one piece of this handout to review all the benefits. And each one take a blank sheet of paper too. Sorry I forgot to tell you that I need to record the whole discussion session because I have to make a report out of this. I will definitely keep all your personal data confidential. Please study the proposal again. And what do you need to write on the paper? Please take a pen first. There is a space on the form for you to write down the ¡°expected price¡±. We already knew that you have to pay to join the club. So tell me how much you are willing to pay for it after you have learned about all the benefits provided by this product. Please write down the acceptable price, the reasonable annual fee that is acceptable to you, in the space of ¡°expected price¡±.
| | English to Chinese: Ericsson warns gloom will continue | Source text - English
Ericsson warns gloom will continue
Ericsson, the world¡¯s largest mobile telephone equipment company, warned yesterday of a risk that there would be no improvement in market conditions next year.
The comments by Kurt Hellstrom, chief executive of the Swedish group, extended the gloom that has engulfed the telecoms industry in the past 18 months. The company¡¯s shares hit their lowest level since September 1996 ahead of a meeting to ask shareholders for SKr30bn ($3.1n) ¨C equivalent to about 18 per cent of its current market value ¨C to see through the downturn.
Mr Hellstrom will tell shareholders tomorrow that the mobile telecoms sector¡¯s outlook has shown no improvement as the drought in orders from cash-strapped operators continues. ¡°we don¡¯t think the market has become worse but the downturn has been prolonged. We have to face the possibility that next year doesn¡¯t turn upwards,¡± he told the Financial times.
He said this was a ¡°conservative¡± scenario and the group was still counting on returning to profit ¡°some time next year¡± after two years of losses. But he added that short-term market turmoil should not obscure the long-term growth prospects for the sector.
Operators urgently needed to invest because ¡°the quality of networks is degenerating almost everywhere, and particularly in western Europe¡±. He was also optimistic about the potential for 3G services, predicting that in 2005 there would be ¡°massive use of 3G¡±.
Mr Hellstrom said Ericsson would use the rights issue proceeds to strengthen its balance sheet and ensure adequate working capital for when market conditions improved. ¡°This is not about converting black holes. We will cover any losses from savings and cost-cutting¡±.
The company said in April it would cut a further 20,000 jobs, taking the total number of cuts announced since the start of last year to 42,000.
Mr Hellstrom also denied that the company was planning any big acquisitions. Ericsson is likely to win support for the issue, after its recent move to defuse a potential rebellion over voting rights. It has promised to examine the case for reducing the wide voting differential between A shares and B shares from the current 1,000-1 to 10-1.
The move would reduce the influence of its two biggest shareholders, Investor, controlled by the Wallenberg family, and Industrivarden, an investment group linked to Svenska Handelsbanken. The issue, scheduled for the third quarter, has still to be priced.
Ericsson shares fell 4 per cent to SKr20.8 yesterday after a profits warning from Singapore¡¯s Flextronics, an outsourcing specialist involved in the production of many of Ericsson¡¯s handsets. The shares are more than 90 per cent below SKr peak in March 2000.
| Translation - Chinese
易立信表示市場黯淡的狀況將持續
全球最大行動電話設備商易立信，昨天提出警告：明年度市場狀況可能不會好轉。
這項評論是由該瑞典集團的首席執行長 Kurt Hellstrom 提出，認為過去十八個月襲捲電信產業的低迷市況還會繼續下去。就在召開股東會議、要求持股人再投入300億瑞典克郎（31億美元）以應付經濟衰退之前，該公司股價跌到 1996 年九月以來的最低水準。300億瑞士克郎相當於該公司目前市值的18%。
Hellstrom先生明天將會告訴持股人，行動電信這一市場區塊的展望，不會有所改善，因為系統商缺乏現金而導致訂單縮水的狀況將會持續。「我們倒不是認為市場狀況會變得更糟，而是經濟衰退期已經比預期得更長，可能到明年仍然不會轉好，我們必須面對這種可能性。」他如此告訴財經時報（Financial Times）。
不過他表示，這是「保守的估計」；在連續兩年虧損之後，該集團仍寄望在明年內的某個時點，能夠轉虧為盈。他補充說明：短期的市場風暴，應不至於傷害這一市場區塊長期的成長預期。
系統商急需投資於設備，因為「幾乎每個地區的通訊網路品質都在衰退，尤其是西歐地區。」他對於第三代電信（3G）的潛力也表示樂觀，預言在2005年時3G將大量獲得採用。
Hellstrom先生指出，易立信會善用權利股發行的方法，強化其資產負債表的表現，並確保當市場回甦時該公司能持有足夠的運轉資金。「如此操作並不是為了彌補財務黑洞；我們的虧損會用存款及削減成本來因應。」
該公司在四月份時曾表示將進一步裁員20000人，如此一來從去年初開始到現在，該公司宣布的裁員總人數已達42000人。
Hellstrom先生同時否認該公司有任何大型的併購計畫。易立信最近試著化解股東大會想要改變表決權結構的企圖，若能成功，該公司在權利股發行議題上很有可能贏得股東的支持。該公司承諾，將會審慎考量此一提議──將A類持股與B類持股間巨大的表決權差距，由現行的1,000比1降為10比1。
此一舉措將會降低易立信兩個最大持股者的影響力。其一是由 Wallenberg 家族主控的 Investor 公司；另一則是 Industrivarden，與 Svenska Handelsbanken 銀行連結的投資集團。權利股發行案排定在第三季執行，仍有待定價。
由於新加坡 Flextronics 公司的獲利警訊，昨天易立信股價下跌4個百分點，收盤價格為20.8瑞典克郎。Flextronics 是一家專業代工廠商，與易立信多款手機的產製有關。易立信股價與 2000年三月股價高峰期的230瑞典克郎相比，已下跌超過 90%。
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